Documents from King George III go online

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The monarch ? America?s last king ? is often referred to as ?mad King George.? He was Britain?s longest reigning king, ruling from 1760-1820. LONDON ? An enormous cache of historical documents from Britain?s royal archives detailing the reign of King George III is going online Saturday as part of the royal family?s effort to rehabilitate the legacy of the monarch widely regarded as having been insane. The portal goes online with the endorsement of Queen Elizabeth II, as part of a five-year project to digitalize 350,000 documents in the archives? collection of Georgian papers. One of the key documents is a handwritten draft letter of abdication that the king wrote in 1783. The documents also show a keen interest in the 1775-1783 American revolutionary war to overthrow British rule in 13 American colonies.